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How to make lightning using Paint.NET
Here is a quick and simple method for making lightning using the freeware Paint.NET program
- Create a new image 800 x 600 at 72 dpi
- Using the marque selection tool select the left half of the image
- Press the D key to set the foreground and background colors to black and white
- Fill the selection with black by pressing the backspace key
- Deselect all by pressing CTRL+D
- Apply Gausuan Blur Apply by menu/Effects/Blurs/Gausian Blur...
- Set the raduis of the blur to about 75
- Apply Clouds filter by menu/Effects/Render/Clouds...
- In the Clouds dialog box set the following
- Scale to about 2.76
- Roughness to about .46
- Blend Mode to Negation
- Adjust levels to remove extraneus clouds
- Apply Sepia Filter by menu/Adjustments/Sepia
- Apply Sepia filter
- Using Hue/Saturation to colorize the lightning
Placing the Lightning in a Scene
- Open a dark image
- Paste lighhtning image into a new layer
- erase unwanter